afraid - Story 762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She pushed through the overgrown weeds, her heart thumping against her ribs. She’d been dreaming of this tree all week, its branches reaching for the sky. Now, the space was empty. The scent of fresh-cut wood stung her nostrils. Her breath hitched. She took a step back, then another, as if the ground itself had shifted beneath her feet. The woods around her seemed to darken, the rustling leaves whispering secrets she couldn’t bear to hear.

Emotion: afraid

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.76 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion afraid. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 afraid stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the afraid emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the afraid vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.316
`마다`	0.314
`worse`	0.313
`😰`	0.303
`恐惧`	0.290

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.691
`la`	-0.562
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.316
`brag`	-0.293